What it’s essential to know
- Elon Musk has began changing the blue chook app icon on Android with Twitter’s new X branding.
- The brand new X emblem is spreading to Twitter’s beta model and has but to reach on the steady channel.
- Twitter’s identify may even reportedly be modified to X within the close to future.
Twitter’s new X emblem is making its approach into the previous few locations the place the platform’s previous branding nonetheless exists, and the most recent to get the therapy is its Android app.
Elon Musk’s Twitter started rolling out the brand new, abrupt branding earlier this week after asserting it through the weekend. The change started to reach on Twitter for the net. As noticed by 9to5Google, Twitter for Android has begun adopting the X emblem within the beta channel.
When you head over to the Google Play Retailer and sort “Twitter” within the search bar, the outcomes will present the brand new X branding. It consists of the white letter X towards a black background, changing the long-lasting blue chook emblem. The identical emblem additionally exhibits up as a standing bar icon for Twitter notifications.
The up to date Play Retailer itemizing is the most recent step in Musk’s marketing campaign to take away Twitter branding from the web. The app description even goes as far as to say that the “X app is the trusted digital city sq. for everybody.”
The remainder of the outline within the itemizing removes any point out of “Twitter.” Nevertheless, the app’s steady model continues to stay with the previous emblem and identify, although it will presumably not be the case quickly.
In the meantime, Twitter Beta’s Android app nonetheless embraces the identical previous branding and identify, although 9to5 believes it will change within the close to future and the launcher identify will turn out to be “X” when the branding reaches the steady channel.
Earlier this week, the rebranding was additionally mirrored on the social media platform’s official handles. For instance, its Twitter deal with has modified from @twitter to @x.
